Well, I'm new to the forums, but have been using gentoo on several platforms, and figure I'd try GentoOSX. I was duped by the "masked packages" thing, until I got the (seemingly) brilliant idea to try modifying my make.conf.

Ya'll may think I'm nuts, but I changed the ACCEPT_KEYWORD variable in make.conf to accept "ppc". Has anybody tried this before? I'm halfway through an install of ethereal, with no errors thus far... Hope it stays that way.